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As you’ve noticed, Amazon.com has placed Macmillan titles back on its store over the past weekend. Last week, the chairman and CEO of Hachette Book Group also communicated that publisher’s desire to control its own pricing destiny. Publishers are willing to accept lower margins on e-book sales only if they can control the product, especially [...]

After a week-long public standoff, Amazon.com caved in to Macmillan and agreed to raise the price of the publisher’s e-books.  Macmillan will set its own e-book prices beginning in March, which are expected to range between $12.99 and $14.99,while Amazon’s default pricing on all other e-books remains at $9.99. The New York Times reported that [...]

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